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By Renee Riva
Kicked in Love
Coming Sept. 23, 2025
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Jaylen Jacobs is a lot of things; record-breaking NCAA kicker, unofficial assistant captain of the Holden University football team, and the son of an NFL Hall of Fame quarterback who tries to manage his son’s every move. Football is all Jaylen has ever known and loved. His future was set in stone before he was old enough to walk. But when a preseason practice right before his senior year leaves Jaylen bound to crutches with a broken ankle, his entire world changes.
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Entering another new school year at Holden University, Rachel MacIntyre has two goals: maintain her soccer scholarship and get to graduation. Her meticulous plan is flipped upside down when funding is cut for the women’s soccer team just weeks before the season. Rachel has no choice but to look elsewhere to make up the scholarship money that she desperately needs to make it to graduation. With a vacancy on the football team’s roster, Rachel tries to prove herself and her skills under the teaching efforts of Jaylen. Forced to spend hours a day together, an unexpected spark ignites between Jaylen and Rachel while they navigate the challenges of college sports, friends, family, and the uncertainty of what the future holds.
It Comes in Waves
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During the first week of her freshman year at North Shore University, Kamryn Dean is subject to a traumatizing event that could have been fatal, if not for Zach Barrett. While the dreadful experience impacts Kamryn for years to come, it introduces her to Zach, who she quickly jumps into a relationship with as a coping mechanism. Zach is a fraternity loving party-goer with a soft side that has him falling for Kamryn quickly.
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Beyond her sudden relationship, Kamryn endures the highs and lows of the college experience through strong friendships with her roommate Maggie, and an unexpected closeness with Elijah Blake. A fraternity brother of Zach’s, Elijah seems to understand Kamryn on a level that not many others do. As their lives progress over the course of four years at NSU, they’ll experience the challenges of college and young adulthood. Kamryn tries to navigate a perhaps too-sudden romance with Zach and a best friendship with Elijah that sometimes feels like it could be more.
Content Warnings:​​ drugs, alcohol, sexual assault, sexual harassment, emotional abuse, violence, therapy, PTSD, sexual content